Bringing healthy eating to life
Healthy eating is for everyone everyday. A healthy diet is one with a good variety of foods in healthy proportions - it doesn’t mean avoiding certain foods altogether.
- Vegetables
So if you try to fill up on fruit, vegetables, and carbohydrates, make sure you get some dairy products, meat, fish, eggs, beans and pulses in your diet.
Of course there are times for treats and less healthy options, as long as you balance them out with healthier choices. If you choose fatty or salty foods at one meal, why not avoid them at the next meal. Similarly if you choose a treat for a snack one day, why not have a piece of fruit next time.
Have you ever wondered how close your diet is to the healthy eating recommendations, or have you measured your BMI? Here you will find some simple online tools to help you do so:
Check your diet
How healthy is your diet? Take a few minutes to complete our online ‘Check your Diet’ programme and find out how close your diet comes to guidelines.
Click here for ‘Check your Diet’
What’s your BMI?
An important indicator of health is body weight. Being overweight can put extra strain on our hearts and joints and can be a trigger for other problems including diabetes. Equally, being underweight is not good for us either.
A simple calculation called the BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) gives us an idea of how our body weight relates to our height. Enter your height and weight into a BMI calculator and check your results against the table.
Click here for a BMI Calculator
Less than 20 - Your weight is quite low. Try to eat a little more, and make sure you have three meals a day and the odd snack.
20 - 25 - This is the ideal range, you have a good balance between the energy you eat and the energy you use.
More than 25 - Think about how you could cut back a little, and perhaps do a bit more exercise. Keeping our body trim is important for our health and wellbeing.
How many portions of fruit and vegetables did you eat yesterday?
Think about what you ate yesterday and add up the number of portions of fruit and vegetables you chose. Examples of portions:
- a piece of fruit (like an apple or orange)
- a couple of plums or apricots
- a handful of grapes
- a large spoon full of vegetables
- a cereal bowl of salad.
0 – certainly time to go and hunt out your local greengrocers
1 - 2 – Lots of room for improvement, try to include some fruit and veg at every meal.
3 - 4 – Doing well but try one or two more pieces to aim for gold
5 or more – excellent, you have taken an important step towards healthy eating
For more information on 5-A-Day click here.
Find out about Food Allergies
If you have an allergy and need to avoid certain foods in your diet we can help. We have up to date lists of our products that are free from milk, egg, soya and gluten for instance. Click here for more information.
Wellness in Action Programme
Nestlé's vision is to be recognised and admired as the leading food and beverage company in the UK and Ireland with a positive reputation for 'making healthier easier' in everything it does. Click here to find out more.
There are lots of useful websites on healthy eating.
Making Healthy Choices
Food Facts
